Violence is the only effective weapon available to the people who are oppressed. How far do you agree or disagree? I personally do not agree that violence is the only effective weapon available to the oppressed people. It is not the only way for people to get their view across or secure their rights and justice. However‚ throughout the history of mankind‚ violence has been widely used as a method to gain control over a person or a group of people or a nation. Unfortunately‚ the present day media
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project‚ through its Adopt/Protect-ATree/ Hectare programs‚ was key to its success. To sustain the Save La Mesa Watershed Project‚ Bantay Kalikasan‚ in partnership with the MWSS and the Q.C. Government‚ rehabilitated and renovated a 33 hectare public park located right outside the natural boundaries of the watershed and 40 meters below the reservoir. In September 2004‚ it was renamed La Mesa Ecopark and reopened to the public. All revenues generated by La Mesa Ecopark are utilized for the continuous
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author writes “It is and should be the right of all free-born people to protest against government actions that they do not agree with.” This statement has been proven innumerable times throughout history and today. For example‚ on December 1‚ 1955‚ Rosa parks refused to follow the public bus regulation which was to give up her seat to a white woman. This was one of the first major acts of civil
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outcome‚ it can also bring a good aftermath for further progress. Rosa Parks being a dark complexion woman at the time era where racism wasn’t illegal and lynching was occurring. She was a big role model for the dark complexion people who lived at her time. What she did was so powerful because she tried to show people that even colored skin individuals can sit where they wanted to and not be harassed by Caucasian mortals. Ms. Parks was arrested at the time but because of her bravery she had struggled
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Disobedience was the Salt March in 1930. Gandhi and his followers walked 240 miles to the India ocean to peacefully protest the British monopoly on Indian salt. Over 80‚000 Indians protested the British by making salt without paying the tax. In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a bus. King‚ along with the help of the Birmingham African-American community‚ boycotted Montgomery buses for 385 days until a US district court ruling ended racial segregation on montgomery
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Throughout history‚ civil disobedience has been the catalyst for change. Societies who have had oppressed people used civil disobedience to bring attention to the injustices they have suffered. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it is plays on the conscience of the oppressors and makes it easy for people to stand up for their own rights. Martin Luther King Jr. is a prime example as to why peaceful resistance to laws has a positive effect on a free society. King
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Civil Rights Civil rights can many different things to many different people. They are basically the rights that protect a person’s freedom. They also guarantee that a person is able to participate in civil life without being discriminated against. Civil rights include the guarantee of people’s safety from discrimination against anything such as race‚ mental or physical disability‚ gender‚ age religion‚ etc. Also citizens may be ensured physical safety. Civil rights are included in the
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Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case; because Colvin was pregnant and unmarried‚ Therefore E.D. Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait for a better case to pursue instead of taking her to court for that. On December 1‚ 1955‚ Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. She had just gotten off work her feet her and she was tired of giving up her spot to a male her point was “she felt she didn’t have to and she didn’t understand why” The Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ urged
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movie Jurassic Park was created in 1993. The director steven spielberg pulled from extinction the greatest creatures ever known. (the making of jurassic park‚1:39.) Jurassic Park was also known to be one of the most expensive movies ever made in its time( 5 fun jurassic park facts‚1). It was considered one of the best graphical dinosaur films and still is today. Although Jurassic Park is one of the biggest known dinosaur movies of all time it follows up with 3 more jurassic park movies. But
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Admire (CAHSEE ESSAY) “A man who is not willing to die for something‚ Is not fit to live” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. The person that I admire is a man that we all cherish and celebrate every year in his honor. He was an American Clergyman‚ Nobel Peace Prize winner‚ and quite possibly is the most influential leader in all of American history. That man is the great‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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